Playing Politics

I’m surprised, given Paul Ryan’s previous positions, that he won’t disavow Donald Trump after the most recent revelation of Trump’s attitude about women, which suggests that Ryan places politics over rectitude or values. Ryan initially indicated that he was unprepared to endorse Trump, who returned the favor, and he later called Trump’s comments about a Mexican judge racist, as well as criticized Trump’s reaction to a Muslim soldier’s parents and his hesitation about David Duke. However, he merely uninvites Trump to his recent rally rather than rejects his candidacy, and his worldview, as an increasing number of Republicans have done, and that seems insufficient, and could, and probably should, cost him politically and personally — what respectable leader wouldn’t repudiate such an individual from his own party?